CHAPTER XVII. 



A SPORTING TKIP TO FRANCE . CONTINUED. 



>ANY Englishmen think it infra dig. 

 to go out partridge-shooting, unless 

 they can make large bags. They 

 must discard such an idea in 

 France, where the bird shooting is amusing 

 enough, but nothing more. I am an old- 

 fashioned fellow, and must confess I do not 

 look on the present style of beating for game 

 in this cold foggy country of ours with a favour- 

 able eye ; in fact, I do not call it legitimate 

 sporting. To me, going out with my brace of 

 well-broken setters, or pointers, who will " back 

 and stand " perfectly, and are " steady before 

 and behind," constitutes the greatest charm in 

 shooting. Give me these, with an intelligent 



